I am ashamed to admit that I have been away from SH3 (campaign-wise) for 2 months (

) so the card is new as is the extra gig of RAM but it seems like the problem just started very recently but I can't swear to it. I believe it played fine post new card. Every other simulation I have runs fine. Could it be my new card? I wouldn't think so. Using the newest drivers for Nvidia.
I remember goofing with a particle.dat mod recently (a new smoke mod) but I thought I went back to the GWX one. My SH3 is heavily modded but I had hoped this would be a simple graphic setting fix.
Thanks for the help and look forward to any other ideas